To:V. V. ADORATSKY

Written:Written on August 2, 1921Published:Published in full in 1932 in the second and third editions of Lenin’sCollected Works, Vol. XXIX.

      First published, but not in full, in 1924 inProletarskaya RevolutsiaNo. 3.

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ComradeAdoratsky,

Ihave looked through the introduction. It’s difficult
to judge, because it’s unfinished. It looks as though it
should be cut down, and expressed much more clearly,
with closer attention to the
formulations.[1]

Thereallyoutstanding quotations from the letters should
be combined withotherworks of Marx and withCapital(for example, on the question of “equality”what matters
mostis inCapital[2]).
If you take questionx, then onthisquestion there is so-and-so in the letters, so-and-so in other
works of Marx, so-and-so inCapital.

Icould only glance at the letters. Of course, you will
still have to cut them clown considerably, link them up,
arrange them properly; think over each one two or three
times, and thenbrieflycomment. Evidently there is more
work involved than it seemed at first.

Thechronological order (very likely you are right) is
probably more convenient.

Withcommunist greetings,Lenin

P.S.I am on holiday. Unwell. Can’t make appointments.

Ifyou have finished the “textbook”, you should start
pushing
it.[3]Probably the quickest way is through
M.\thinspaceN. Pokrovsky.

[1]Referenceis to the introduction Adoratsky wrote for the book
which Lenin had asked him to prepare,K. Marks i F. Engels.
Pisma. Teoriya i politika v perepiske Marksa i Engelsa(Letters.
Theory and Policy in the Correspondence of Marx and Engels).
The book appeared in 1922.

[2]SeeKarl Marx,Capital, Vol. I, Moscow, 1972, pp. 65–66, 126–27.

[3]Adoratskywas preparing for the press the bookProgramma po
osnovnym voprosam Marksizma(Programme on the Basic Problems
of Marxism), published in 1922.